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Update: Apr 26, 2019 @ 6:46pm

27 April 2019 Update
  • Make sure animal ghost riders don't get knocked off.
  • Pull latest CNS, CS, ES, FI, FR, HU, IT, KO, PL, PT-BR, RU and TR translations from Transifex[www.transifex.com]. Some languages are making a lot of progress.

Equivalent to nightly r2954.

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Update: Apr 18, 2019 @ 12:57pm

18 April 2019 Update


Relatively Major Changes / Additions
  • Allow Player to Control Ally Commanders and their troops during battle using Influence Points
  • INT gives bonus XP to heroes after battles
  • Slightly bigger Gondor strength income
  • New Quest: Defeat Target Lord Party In Battle

Quality of Life Changes
  • Ask guildmaster for lord location (region if not in a center)
  • Ask guildmaster for companion locations
  • Add Uruk & Black Numenorean Start Options for Dol Guldur

Troops & Items
  • Adjusted some weapon prices
  • Make sure Horse Archers are regrouped to Archers during sieges.
  • Added Guldur arrows, gave them to Fell Guldur Trackers
  • Fix issues with Bear Shield\
  • Gave Dain a red axe
  • Some item and reward item fixes
  • Other tweaks to items and troops

Scenes
  • Improved Isengard castle and underground scene
  • Fixed collision mesh for Orthanc
  • Added/improved/adjusted some scene props
  • Other tweaks to scenes

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug with Mordor reward items
  • Removed unfitting modifiers from horses and wargs
  • Fix Improved Horse Archer setting toggling to ON
  • Change Dol Guldur slot_tier_x_troops to Guldur troops which should fix the Dispatch Scouts quest for DG
  • Fixed bugs with Lossarnach axemaster
  • Fix an old Native MS bug
  • Other bug fixes

Asset Changes
  • Added normal map for Mearh
  • fixed spec map for Arnor armours
  • high-res troll textures, custom Isengard troll texture
  • Dale reward sword LODs
  • More improved high-res textures (orc weapons, arnor armours and helms, some corsair helms, Rohan shield paint)
  • Improved Dale and Northmen helms
  • Upscaled + improved some Gondor textures (helms, shields, armours, thanks to NPC99 for the chainmail texture!), added improved armour meshes
  • added feminized meshes to a Dale armour

Thank you for your support and enjoy Middle-earth!

Version: TLD_3.5_wb_nightly_patch_2019.04.18-17.06_r2952.7z in the Nightly Builds

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Update: Feb 11, 2019 @ 11:05am

11 February 2019 Update

Troll Changes
  • Reduced their Hardened Skin HP
  • Improved the formula for calculating damage against their Hardened Skin
  • Reduced Arrow Damage unless it is a headshot
  • Improved Couched Lance damage against Troll Hardened Skin
  • Nerfed their AOE strikes
  • They can pushback enemies when surrounded
  • Overall, should be a better experience now. Thanks for the feedback


Troops & Items
  • Gave itp_crush_through, itp_unbalanced, itp_can_knock_down to some weapons
  • Tweaked all horses for better balance. There's no longer any single best horse.
  • Expanded Umbar troop tree, adjusted their items and their stats
  • Slightly more cavalry for Dale
  • Added Corsair Master Assassin to Night Troops list
  • A lot of reward item shuffling and tweaking
  • Reduced day-/nighttime penalties
  • Fix Arnor Shield texture
  • Added spec and normal maps to Arnor items
  • Fixed Pinnath Gelin Knight shield
  • Redistributed warg types, made them slightly less tanky
  • Less wargs and throwing weapons for Gundabad
  • Moved Gundabad elite infantry a tier up, re-added t4 Moria orc archers

Scenes
  • Moved Faniul to a place that is easier to find
  • pimped up some castle scenes
  • Fixed Minas Tirith Siege
  • Improved some props and Caras Galadhon scene

Bug Fixes
  • Fix "amount til promotion" visual issue
  • Fix Lord Healing dialogue bug
  • Fixes to some dialogues (thanks to JTLannister)
  • Re-dressed Kili
  • Fix issues with Alternate Training quest

Other Changes
  • Low Level Orcs will start up front while in formation, elite orcs behind
  • Add Pre-War Condition to Spawn Bandit script (More bandits before war starts)
  • Increased probabilites and reduced prices for item modifiers
  • The better your relations is with a town, the better quality items you'll see in smiths
  • Give Glorfi & Lyka advanced combat AI cause they are badass
  • Add Riding Skill exceptions to protect against being unseated during KO animal attacks
  • make battle encounter effects optional through a menu
  • change some fog distance during Saruman's storm
  • Capture Commander & Rescue Prisoners quest should only be given after War starts
  • Adjusted party size morale malus
  • tweaked raider parties for Defend Refugee Quest

Thank you for your support and enjoy Middle-earth!

Version: TLD_3.5_wb_nightly_patch_2019.02.10-21.57_r2904.7z in the Nightly Builds

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Update: Dec 18, 2018 @ 1:38pm

December 18, 2018 Update


New Troll Behaviour and Attacks
  • Trolls now attack just like troops
  • Trolls now charge. There are still some issues with it, but for now, it works relatively well.
  • Some trolls have shields.

Player Battle Victories Support Current Theater Allied Factions
  • When the player wins a battle, the spoils (i.e faction strength boost) are shared between the allied factions of that theater
  • Previously, the player's faction would get the spoils.
  • This allows the player to actually make a bigger difference in allied theaters, without making the player's faction overpowered.

Companions
  • 3 New Evil Companions Added.
  • Companions are no longer found inside castles. They will be found somewhere in the town center. Look for them there.

Troop & Item Changes
  • remove blur from isengard weapons that makes the weapon disappear
  • Made Isengard bow slightly thinner and tilted to the side to improve first-person aiming
  • add female variation of Beorning Berserker armour and Khand Kilt
  • Fixed Northmen Nasal Helm missing mesh, Dale reward sword position and missing materials, some more missing materials and asset doublettes.
  • Minor adjustments to Beorning, Dale, Corsair troop trees
  • Adjusted Gundabad&Moria top tier levels
  • Made Khand kilt available in shops
  • Fixed Dunedain Ranger stats,
  • Changed some Beorning walker and guard troops
  • Improved Umbar armour normal maps and UVs, rotated+improved big bucklers
  • Reorganised some reward items according to sheet
  • New Shield of Tuor reward by Avelium
  • Nerfed Morthond Hunter and PG knight a bit
  • Implemented Faradon's dwarf armour
  • New Rohan armours, helms, boots, horses by NPC99
  • Adjusted Rohan troop tree
  • Removed dismounted Rohan troops from party templates

Campaign / Campaign AI Changes
  • Remove Dol Amroth as Secondary Gondor Capital
  • MT cannot be sieged unless X amount of Gondor Centers have fallen + minor AI tweaks to favour sieges
  • remove the 'we are campaigning' restriction when requesting council.
  • Change Umbar & Moria faction colours to be less similar to Moria
  • New Lord Command: Ask Lord to attack a besieged center
  • Don't reinforce factions in Last Stand mode
  • make some changes to guardian party quest
  • Fixed limited defender spawns in sieges, rebalanced defender starting numbers and reinforcments.
  • Prevent division by zero in script_calculate_rank_gain_new, hopefully also fixing the rank gain exploit
  • Allies will now help the player against deserters. They still don't hunt them down though (as designed).
  • Removed player faction str income nerf
  • Some work on Moria and Gundabad reinforcement templates
  • More garrison size adjustments
  • attempt to fix division by zero errors in ai scripts

Scenes & Scene Props Fixes / Changes
  • Improved some native scene props
  • Some scene fixes (Dol Amroth landmark scene, Dol Guldur center)
  • removed some buggy tree LODs;
  • new Isengard underground terrain
  • Some more details to Beorn's House.
  • Hopefully fixed troops spawning below terrain in Gundabad mirkwood outpost.
  • New Beorning village scene
  • Improved some AI barriers in Erebor and Rivendell camp siege
  • Pimped up MT siege a bit
  • Reduced blue ground colour in some Gondor scenes.
  • Hopefully fixed the water foam particle for WB
  • disabled formations in Gondor coastal scenes

Others
  • renamed some factions for better grammar
  • Fix Battle Encounter Effects formula + make fogginness relative to scene size
  • Add new male faces (textures, head mesh, modified beards)
  • Make sure dead companion is not resurrected
  • Add Merlkir's new Funeral Pyre Oath drawing + Added Funeral Pyre Oath menu
  • Fix Moria / Gundabad Oath Kill Counter
  • Make sure Moria book can't be taken twice from Moria
  • Hardcode some scout camp locations, so hopefully they don't spawn on inaccessible terrain
  • Change Targeted kill quest to be level dependent.
  • make sure heroes aren't eaten
  • make sure retreat party has at least 1 troop
  • Show rank points til next rank in Reports
  • Add extra checks for Berserker Trait
  • Make Slower Agents when Wounded Optional through a Menu (Battlefield AI tweaks)
  • Put in a hard limit for # of attackers in village defense quest
  • made sea battle (south) a bit easier (less javelins)
  • Fix Saruman Storm Lightning effect + Tweak Battle Encounter Effects Formula Again
  • Henneth Annun no longer a target for certain quests
  • Add info on who killed hero both in news and in mound/pyre + target that faction for oath of vengeance
  • New face codes for Gondor town NPCs, by Merlkir
  • New day/nighttime penalties, also affecting melee
  • added a new preset to Fixed Custom Camera: Center View


Thanks again for your support and enjoy Middle-earth!



Version: TLD_3.5_wb_nightly_patch_2018.12.18-21.17_r2861.7z in the Nightly Builds

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Update: Sep 14, 2018 @ 3:02pm

Another September 2018 Patch
  • Fixed a bug found when we implemented reinforce next theater script
  • Fixed weather effects happening when it is not intended to
  • Added preliminary Dol Guldur troop tree by moving orc trackers to DG + making them a bit stronger;
  • Made Rhovanion Marchwardens ranged troops;
  • Rotated Dale Bill so it actually hits with the blade

Thanks again and enjoy Middle-earth!

Version: TLD_3.5_wb_nightly_patch_2018.09.14-21.48_r2752.7z from the Nightly Builds

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Update: Sep 13, 2018 @ 2:55pm

September 13, 2018 Patch

New Features:
  • Battle Encounter Effects
    - Depending on the faction strength of certain factions AND where the player is on the map, some special effects leading to buffs/debuffs might occur during battle (BETA)
  • Extended Battlesize: Minimum is now 90; Maximum is 350.
  • Made sure Sieges always have optimal battlesize

Other changes:
  • Prune Prisoners from Centers faster (From once a week to twice a week)
  • Fix Guild Master Quest Ranges (should fix the Guildmaster kill quest issue)
  • Fix kill quest counter from counting each kill as double.
  • Upscaled and improved more textures + added normal maps for Rhun, Beornings
  • Fixed some strings
  • Improved woodmen / beorning normal maps, fixed one mesh

Thanks again for your continued support! Enjoy Middle-earth!

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Update: Sep 9, 2018 @ 4:29pm

Sept 9 Hotfix

Previous deployment broke female character choice persisting. Fixed now! Sorry!

- Also a few fixes with the Guildmaster Kill Bandits quest

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Update: Sep 9, 2018 @ 8:41am

September 09 2018 Patch

  • Add Last Stand of Durin's Folk Custom Scenario. Try it out via the Main Menu --> Custom Scenario
  • Add Faction Selection Presentation
  • Hardcoded some Scout Camp locations so that they will always be reachable
  • Changed Dale troops' inventories, so that the Dale armours hopefully show up in shops; also adjusted some item stats;
  • Put deprecated troops back in for old savegames. May be overwritten in a few months.
  • Changed some reward item text so it is more understandable + change isengard mine to give +2 tactics for now

Save Game Compatible.

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Update: Aug 30, 2018 @ 1:51pm

August 30, 2018 Release


General
  • Put back the language folders into their proper location.
  • Remove some whitespace from dialogs.
  • Fix to Agent Labels for non-affiliated troops (tribal orcs, mountain orcs...).
  • Fix to guildmaster kill quest again.
  • Fix to raise troops completion dialogue.
  • Add Erebor "Visit the Great Gates" menu option.

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Update: Aug 29, 2018 @ 9:08am

August 29, 2018 Release


Battles
  • Major code optimizations during battles, improving overall performance
  • Made Simple All/Enemy Only agent labels (set in TLD mod options)
  • Formation V5 added. Can be chosen via TLD Mod Options (Beta)
  • Made some more formations change (includes a new option to disallow AI from forming defensive)
  • Fixes to Infantry AI (Original Formations)
  • Disabled complex formations for small battlefields
  • Made all attackers in sieges charge for now
  • Made sure enemies don't flee too fast from battles (changed from 90 secs to 3.5 mins).
  • Increased damage against lone wargs so that they are not damage sponges
  • Added Warg Leap Attack
  • Fixed troll hit knockdown animation for troops on horses
  • Changed how berserker trait works in battle. You now regenerate slightly when killing enemys in melee, but only while wearing certain light armours.
  • Allowed Lancers to be commanded to use Side-Arms

Quests
  • Added Introductory Quest when the war begins
  • Made sea battle difficulty scale better with the player's level, and also easier overall for all players who forgot to bring a shield.
  • New Quest Category: Slay Quests (Beta)
  • Targeted Slay Quest: Kill X Number of Specific Troops
  • Faction Slay Quest: Kill X Number of Y Faction Troops
  • Guildmaster Quest: Kill X Bandits
  • Raise Troops Quest Amount is now dependent on player level and trainer skill
  • Alternate Option for Raise Troops Quest
  • Made Trolls Count more for Oath of Vengeance Quest
  • Made sure that Moria and/or Gundabad is still alive when swearing an oath against them after giving the book
  • Removed morale from Defend / Raid Village and Scout Camp battles
  • Some fixes to Defend / Hunt refugee quest

Scenes
  • New scenes for Caras Galadhon, Rivendell Camp, Erebor, Hornburg from the Scene Pack
  • Improved Edhellond center + siege scenes
  • Minor fixes to a lot of scenes, esp. sieges: Minas Morgul, Dol Guldur, Osgiliath, Moria, East Emnet
  • Fixed Rohan wall/tower collision meshes
  • Fixed an old bug that caused wrong the terrain type to show up in autogenerated battle maps
  • Improved Orthanc model
  • Made Mouth of Sauron location in Morannon castle a bit more obvious to new players

Assets/Visuals
  • Improved and/or upscaled a lot of textures, added normal maps, including: Mirkwood, Lorien, Rohan, orc weapons+shields, Umbar, Imladris, Erebor, Harad, banners, some props
  • Orc helm retexture
  • Mordor Uruk armour retexture + new variants
  • New armours, shields, helmets for Dale
  • Improved some models: Harad armours, Umbar round shields, dwarf shields
  • Made dwarf helmets beard-friendly
  • Added mipmaps to some armours that previously missed them
  • Fixed greenish tint (ground reflections) on armours with normal maps.

Troops
  • Added special 'night troops', which don't lose any weapon proficiencies at night.
  • Added 'berserker' trait for some troops, including one companion, allowing them to slowly regenerate while fighting
  • Improved/extended troop trees for: Dwarves, Beornings/Woodmen, Dale, Dunland, Umbar, Pinnath Gelin, harad
  • upped orc and Uruk T5 levels, so they're a bit harder to train
  • Adjusted weapon proficiencies for all archers, so they're weaker in melee, and also slightly weaker in ranged combat.
  • Removed Ithilien Rangers from the regular troop tree. They're rare now!

Items
  • Made some 2h axes/picks actual 2h weapons instead of polearms, so AI troops use them better.
  • New Rohan Guard armour by Brego, replacing Rohan's buggy heraldic armour
  • Made Beorning Club available as a reward item
  • Beorn shield reward allows draws nature to your side
  • New Dale Reward Sword by Mandible
  • New Mithril Reward Shield by Mandible
  • More changes to reward items: Dale, Moria, Umbar
  • Added Power Draw requirements to most bows, adjusted damage output.

Campaign balance
  • Weakened Gondor strength gain from centers, buffed Mordor, but increased handicap for evil players
  • Weakened Moria, strengthened Dol Guldur
  • Slightly nerfed player faction's strength income
  • Increased fac_str_weak to 3000: Less offensive campaigns that can't siege (usually resulting in defeats), hopefully less ganging up on Gondor in the beginning.
  • Changed garrison reinforcements, so garrisons have better troops + more archers, adjusted for some factions.
  • Made evil garrisons stronger
  • Stronger initial garrisons for captured cities (except player faction)
  • New formula determining how many rank + influence points players get from battles. Now rewards how you impact the war, taking into account the type of party and number of troops you defeated, number of troops you lost, whom you helped, and how many troops you bring in joint battles. Generally gives a little more reward than before.
  • Slightly nerfed and reduced amount of ranger scout parties, to make Ithilien less toxic
  • Add Secondary Capitals to Dale, Gundabad, Minas Tirith
  • When a theater gets defeated, the next theater gets slightly reinforced by the remnants of the defeated factions
  • When Fac Str is Crushed, lords hideout in their capitals, awaiting sieges

Tutorialisation
  • Add Faction Introduction Screen
  • Re-Implement Tutorial for New Mount and Blade players
  • Add info text about sieges on player's first siege
  • Added UI items to make some commands more transparent to players

Misc
  • Oath of Vengeance drawing added
  • Implemented 2 new victory cheers
  • Allowed Player to command parties to follow (Depends on Faction Rank)
  • Re-used some battle music for Sieges
  • Made fangorn safe for a while when ents are defeated in combat
  • Made sure Butcher trait counter adds up during other instances where prisoners are slaughtered
  • Made sure morale bonus for rotten food appears for Orc / Uruk parties
  • Made deserter party composition slightly balanced / realistic
  • Created a retreat / cover party when player orders to leave some troops behind.
  • Fixed Adv Camp Garrison appearing after adv camp gets destroyed
  • Added Cheat Menu Item Grabber
  • Fixed Reward Items being stolen when losing battles
  • Gave quick start players full inventory

Translations
  • Updated translation source files, which should fix string mix-up in translations. Wanna help translating TLD to your language? Check out our transifex board on https://www.transifex.com/tld !

Special thanks to Ystldystl[www.twitch.tv] and Plasquar for their really helpful and entertaining playthroughs! Thanks to Gorvex as well for his very detailed bug reports!

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